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Ms. George from Davis, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Journey to Understanding

My students need books to read and tablets to share to study the injustices against Japanese Americans in the US during WWII so they can work to make sure nothing like that ever happens.

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My Students

My 6th grade class is part of a neighborhood program in a school that has a demographic divide between the neighborhood kids and a magnet program. In the microcosm of our school site, I see an opportunity to bridge gaps that have occurred by both happenstance and choice. I put a great emphasis on social-emotional learning and the students under my care rise to the challenge of being the best human beings they can be, mindful and focused on caring for each other while raising their awareness of the world outside our town.

I constantly strive to provide an equitable educational experience for my kids, especially since they are more likely to be from families with fewer options.

My students come from a variety of backgrounds, speak a number of different languages, and are being raised in families with a wide range of situations and financial means. The neighborhood program in which I teach is Title I, many children receive free- and reduced-price lunch, and we have a high number of students who are learning English as a second language.

My Project

I want the students in my class to learn from history, to understand that there are many things from the past that should never be repeated, especially times when citizens and immigrant residents of the US were denied civil liberties and rights. The focus of my project is to teach my class about the dark chapter in US history when Japanese Americans and people with Japanese ancestry were unjustly incarcerated. Through their study, they will learn it was undeniably wrong and should not be seen as a precedent for similar harm against other groups of people.

It is imperative that our children, our future, work to ensure injustices like the incarceration of Japanese Americans never happen again.

My main focus with this project is to receive funding for a class set of novels and a variety of other books. Along with the books, I am requesting six Kindle Fire tablets so groups of students can go on the Internet to find and research images and other primary source materials. I will also teach using curriculum and resources from Densho, an organization that documents first-hand accounts of the incarceration of Japanese Americans. With this knowledge, my students will be more informed as they strive for social justice and work to fight intolerance and try to right the wrongdoings of the past.

Ms. George Birch Lane Elementary School Grades 6-8

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Davis, CA View local requests 30 students impacted 20donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
All-New Fire HD 8 Tablet, 8" HD Display, Wi-Fi, 16 GB - Includes Special Offers, Blue • Amazon Business $89.99 6 $539.94
Journey To Topaz: A Story Of The Japanese-American Evacuation • Amazon Business $7.64 30 $229.20
So Far from the Sea • AKJ Education $5.83 6 $34.98
Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience • Amazon Business $18.85 1 $18.85
The Children of Topaz (Revised Color Edition): The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp Based on a Classroom Diary • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II • AKJ Education $16.78 1 $16.78
Executive Order 9066: The Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans • Amazon Business $13.95 1 $13.95
Paper Wishes • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps • Amazon Business $12.22 1 $12.22
Thin Wood Walls • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83

Materials cost

$901.14

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $82.45

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.52

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,027.11

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$181.25

Total project goal

$1,208.36

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,208.36

17 Donors

-$1,178.07

Donations toward project cost

-$1,005.86

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$172.21

match offer

-$25.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$21.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$5.29

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 $0.00

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